![]() In 1953, a 20-year-old Ono moved to New York City. So we had our conceptual dinner and this is maybe my first piece of art.” So, I realised even then that just through imagining, we can be happy. What kind of dinner would you like?’ And, he said, ‘Ice cream.’ So, I said, ‘Good, let's imagine our ice cream dinner.’ And, we did, and he started to look happy. ![]() “I said, ‘OK, let's make a menu together. Speaking to the Guardian in 2013, she described how, after being evacuated in the aftermath of the heavy bombing of Tokyo during World War II, Ono’s brother was “really unhappy and depressed and really hungry because we did not have very much food.” Her solution was to turn to their imaginations. However, it’s Yoko Ono – whose late husband John Lennon once described as “the world's most famous unknown artist” – who is one of its most important, and pioneering, associates.īorn in Tokyo in 1933, during the frightening years of World War II, Ono took refuge in art as a child and has cited starvation as the spark for her earliest artistic contribution. ![]() Writing in The Art Newspaper in 2009, Ben Davis levelled, “Conceptual art is no different from ‘traditional’ art: There is plenty of interesting painting and sculpture today there is also plenty of boring, derivative painting and sculpture.” Artists whose conceptualism followed in Duchamp’s footsteps are also some of the most boundary-pushing artists in history, from John Baldessari to Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Yayoi Kusama. As a practice based on ideas rather than materiality, aesthetics, or technicality, it’s understandably the Marmite of the art world. Since the introduction of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” in 1917, which – despite being labelled by the artist himself as a readymade – is arguably one of the first examples of conceptual art, the movement has long been misunderstood or denounced entirely.
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